Les hivers dans l'Europe occidentale: étude statistique et historique sur leur température, discussion des observations thermométriques 1852–1916 et 1757–1851, tableaux comparatifs, classification des hivers 1205–1916, notices historiques sur les hivers remarquables, bibliographie

Abstract

IN the Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Science of Amsterdam for 1918, Dr. C. Easton published a paper on “Periodicity of Winter Temperatures in Western Europe,” in which he gave the results of his analysis of a long series of historic records, but not the records themselves. He has now, at the instance of Dr. J. P. van der Stok, published the materials on which his study was based, and one can appreciate both the difficulties he encountered and his ingenuity in overcoming them. Having accomplished the enormous amount of reading, in several different languages, necessary to make a thorough collection of ancient records, he had not only to estimate the relative severity of the various winters recorded by the chroniclers, but also to compare them with the winters of recent years for which instrumental records are available.

Les hivers dans l'Europe occidentale: étude statistique et historique sur leur température, discussion des observations thermométriques 1852–1916 et 1757–1851, tableaux comparatifs, classification des hivers 1205–1916, notices historiques sur les hivers remarquables, bibliographie.

Par Dr. C. Easton. Pp. iv + 210. (Leyde: E. J. Brill, 1928.) n.p.